The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| Hcdi -slSuteu people pay ROOu prices lOT are
merely bits of common glass treated with a
| coating of chemicals, which gives them the ap-
pearance OF being genuine pebbles.
DURING November 23,307 immigrants landed
at Castle Garden, against s4,670 for November
of last year. So far this year the immigration
| has been 3-4,S12, while during the corresponding
| time last year it was PSI 1903. The immigration
| for every month so far this year, with the ex-
| ception of November, has been in excess of that
for the corresponding months of last year
| The st. Plus Lyceum, of Baltimore Md re-
Gently sent letter to Mrs. Cleveland asking for
her picture and that of the President. The
Lyceum has received, through Col. Lamont, the
fouowing reply: THE accompanying engraving
of the President is sent in response to your re-
| cent note to Mrs. Cleveland who regrets that
she has no picture of herself which she would
wish TO send in reply to your further request.
STURDY 3-year-o walked half mile from
his home in Middletown, Conn, to the depot
| and crawled on the rear platform of train just
about to start. He was found by brakeman
| sitting bareheaded and happy, on the platform,
Win MS rat legs dangling of, as the train
whlzzed along toward Saybrook. The con-
| ductorpu him off at Higganum, and he was re-
turned to Middletown and his frantic mother.
In some places in China debtors who are I'M
able to meet the claims of their creditors are
| punished with the loss of sight. In the case
which came under DR.. MorriSon's observation it
was the debtors son who was the victim of the
and deprived wholly of the sight of one eye,
While that OF the other would have been lost but
for timely surgical aid. The offense was that
the poor fellows father owed the remorselesS
Shylock forty taeis, or about $50.
THE recent attacks on the Salvation Army in
Canada have aroused good deal of sympathy
in their behalf, and the government has prom
ised to make an investigation of the whole
matter. At the assault on them in Quebec, the
mob is said to have been led by an officer of the
militia. The Salvationists are entitled to the
protection of the law, and they ought to have
1t. They should not be surprised, however, at
any intrusion of their rights, for they them
selves show no respect or consideration for other
people, nor do they ever hesitate to break the
law.
RECENT PHENOMENON in Central Illinois puz-
zles scientific and other people. After weeks of
drought, the streams and wells becoming ex-
hauSted, abundant water suddenly appeared,
without rain or other visible source of supply.
Water flowed freely in the streams. and even
the ShallOweSt wells were repleniShed. Where
this water came from and the cause of its
sudden appearance are mysteries which no man
can find out, Some religious people believe it
was an answer to prayer. 1t is probable that
the effect was produced by subterranean
disturbance similar to that of earthquake
shock
IT WAS the dream of old John ]. Herrick the
Clerk in the Auditors department at the Gus
| tom house, New York, who died at his desk on
| Tuesday that before the coffin lid closed over
| MIN he would once again live in the fine man
| sion known in Tarrytown as "Herrick's Folly"
| The mansion was built when Mr.. Herrick was a
wealthy flour merchant nearly thirty years ago
| The Folly for a number of years has been the
home of A s. Hatch, the ex-President of the
| Stock Exchange and the banker, whose third
failure few weeks ago has DISTINGUISHED him
from the privileges of the Exchange 1t is said
that Mr.. Hatch's troubles began when he en-
| tered ''Herrick's Folly"
RIVER CAPTAIN says: There is a strange
| phenomenon connected with the Upper Red
river. have several times been stranded by
low water in the Upper Red, say 500 miles be-
| low the source, lying with a steamboat for
weeks awaiting a rain and rise. Without any
rain in the vicinity of where the boat was, Ihave
seen the river come up twenty feet or more in
one night. | figure out the phenomenon in this
way: The sources of the Red river are in the
Llano Estacado of New Mexico. and the rains
falling upon these great plains pour down into
the headwaterS of the river, and the water
| comes rushing down many hundreds of miles,
where there have been no rains for weeks. and
thus result in the unlookedfor swell in the
water"
THE youngest man who has ever had seat on
| the Supreme bench was Judge Story, of Massa-
chusetts, who was only 80 years old at the time
of his appointment and who remained on the
bench for thirty four years. Story was one of
the most remarkable lawyers in our history. He
| had made large fortune out of his law practice
when he was made Supreme Judge by Madison,
and he had big income from the sale of his
legal writings He wrote twenty-seven different
volumes and published thirty four volumes of
DECISIONS and his receipts from the sale of these
amounted to as high as $4,000 year. He was
hard worker all his life and when he was a
young man he wrote poetry. His law books
have a high standing in England. He was a
member of Congress before he took his seat on
the bench.
TWENTY WEDDING GUESTS were seated around
the festive board at the city of Jarrow, Old Eng
land. They had just cut into the wedding cake
"a splendid castle, erected by the pastry cook
with particular care, after drawing made on
purpose by the best architect in the city-when
the bride, who had been served first and tasted
first, uttered a little cry of pain from cramp-
ing sensation in the stomach. Her next neighbor
experienced the same sensation, and before the
company had realized what going on they
were all suffering great agony. The cake was
sent to chemist, who found the sugar crust to
contain % per cent. of its weight of arsenic
Most probably the sugar baker had mistaken
parcel of rat poison for sugar. All the twenty
wedding guests were sick for a few DAYS but
the fright they experienced was their greatest
suffering.
SINCE the army surgeons brought to notice the
frequency of diphtheria in the French army. par
ticularly among cavalry regiments DR.. Longuet
has studied the subject and in a paper read be-
fore the Academy of Medicine he has arrived at
the following conclusion as to the etiology of
tne disease. III IS l0cOuteStaDle That. not OnlV
in the French army, but in the German army
the cavalry, though less numerous than the in
fantry, furnishes three times more cases of diph-
| liberia. 1t is equally certain that at Paris, for
example, the most active foci of this cruel
malady are, on the one hand, the largest of the
cavalry barracks and on the other, a hospital
situated near one of the most important stables
belonging to the Omnibus Company; and as
the cause of the malady could not be traced to
the water, nor to the straw, nor yet to the
horses, it appears conclusive that 1t must exist
in the manure"
JUST about one-third of the Supreme Judges
have been between 40 and so years of age at the
time they were appointed, and fourteen out of
the forty have ranged from AZ to 40. The
court at first consisted of Chief Justice and
five Associate Justices, and Thomas Told of
Kentucky, the man who was added during .Jeffer-
SON. administration, making the number of AS
soclate Justices six, was ~, but both Carton and
Mckinley, the two Judges who were appointed
by jackson when the court was increased To it's
present size, were 81, and more than half of the
appointees, or twenty three, have been between
80 and 60 years of age, while only three have
been over 60 at the time of their appoint
ment. Senator Daniels ancestor from Virginia
who served nineteen years on the bench between !
1910 and 1860, was So years old when he was an |
pointed. Levi Woodbury. was So, Gabriel DtvaI |
% and Benjamin r. Curtis was only 10 Still
many of these Justices did good work for wears |
after they had reached the present age of Sec |
rotary Lamar, and Waite, Miller. Bradley and |
Field show no mental decline, though thew are |
all over TO- Lamar ought to be good for ten /!
years. He is in good health, has the stomach of !